Accelerated share repurchases (ASRs) are credible commitments by firms to repurchase shares immediately. Including an ASR in a repurchase program reduces the flexibility that firms have to alter an announced program in response to subsequent changes in the price and liquidity of its shares,...

Between 2004 and 2008, $131 billion of stock was repurchased via accelerated share repurchases (ASRs), and in 2007, ASR announcements represented about 26% of the total number of repurchase program announcements. ASRs are credible commitments by firms to repurchase shares immediately. Including...

This paper examines firms' voluntary disclosures regarding open market repurchase programs, i.e., announcements that firms have suspended, resumed, or completed repurchases. Abnormal returns around announcements are, on average, positive when firms voluntarily announce repurchase resumptions or...

This paper investigates the timing and source of anomalous positive long-run abnormal returns following repurchase authorizations. Returns between program authorization and completion announcements are indistinguishable from zero. Abnormal returns occur only after completion announcements....

We construct a large sample of announcements that firms have authorized, suspended, resumed, or completed open market repurchase (OMR) programs. Starting or continuing repurchases is associated with positive average announcement period abnormal returns. Stopping repurchases, either by suspending...